The Downbeat, the Freak Salona. Have you gone Fight six? At the
time, it's just Danny and Mikey. Kevin's not where us. JJ is
here. We're gonna be off tomorrow and Monday. Well, Pugs your strips.
Good off Pugs and Pugs and Pals tomorrow morning and Monday morning. Please
tune in support them. Yeah, give them some love. But he will.
He will definitely come in here with two excellent shows planned. Hell yeah,
no doubt. He's a pro. And then Danny and I'll be back
on Tuesday. We'll do Tuesday and Wednesday, and then Thursday Kevin will be
back and we'll be full send. I will have a review on Tuesday about
the Spear. I'm off to Las Vegas. I'm gonna watch Fish plate the
Spear. They also have like smellovision there. I think they have the ability
to pump in smells and temperatures. Okay, and Fish has been working on
these four shows since last June. They said, I have not and they're
being real KOI on like that stuff. I don't know if they're gonna use
smellovision. I mean, what's going to overpower the overriding scent that's going to
be in that. Damn yeah, that's true. So they're pumping in fake
weed smelling. No, that's a guy standing next to Wait, that's me.
Oh crap, it's in my hand. They've pumped a joint in my
hand. The spear did it. That's illegal. I'm really excited. The
first of four shows is tonight. Not going to this evening, but I'll
be going to Friday and Saturday and uh yeah, we'll review fun times at
the Sphere next Tuesday and uh maybe gambling successes. We're laying bets, me
and Danny. We're laying one hundred bucks on the MAVs minus one Sunday Night
or Sunday Day against the Clippers in Game one, one hundred bus on hopefully
seven to one odds. I don't know what I'll get when I get there,
but that'll be on two hundred bucks. One hundred bucks in each of
us on the MAVs at seven to one to win the Western Conference and sixteen
to one to win the NBA Championship. We're getting dirty on those. We're
the home of the MAVs ninety seven to one, home of the MAVs.
We take ownership of that, don't we pure ownership of our being the home
of the MAVs and inside sports Medicine with doctor TiO Sorriel. We'll get to
some talkbacks here in a minute. I guess I have birthdays if we need
to get to them, but we have some leftovers. We just had asked
the down beat. We're just kind of kicking around stuff around the station about
our previous station. Whatever. We're down for it. You got any more?
Got a couple? So I get what this person Brandon on the Facebook
group is trying to ask, and I'll read the way he worded it,
and then we'll try to interpret it a little bit. He says. My
favorite mix is with Danny Skin and Reiner talking music while Soroy mediate mediates.
I feel like that was the old lineup, but I loved hearing those segments.
Would that mix ever be a thing again, I don't really remember doing
much of that. If they're asking about the actual mixes that we would do,
like when our show would end, we would, you know, do
ten to fifteen minutes with the show that's coming up afterwards and just kind of
cross pollin eate and what do you guys got going on? And usually we'd
have a loose plan or somebody have a topic that we could all discuss.
Then yeah, that was something that we did over at the old station,
and I think it's a really fun thing to do. I don't know if
those will ever come back again. They've been gone for a while, so
usually once those those horses are out of the barn, they don't go back
in. But a doubt they'll come back. I think the thought was to
because if you do, if you have a mix like right now, for
instance, if we were beginning a mix with Ben and Skin, they're going
to walk in any minute, we wouldn't really have anything planned for this segment.
I think the thought was just to put not to have a give up
segment at the end of every show. Now we come from a school of
those often turned into magical moments yep, but a more based management based viewpoint
is that you should have something prepared, you know, at the beginning and
an end I suppose, and you know there may be a disagreement there,
but ultimately we are trying to improve what this show is and obviously our whole
station's ratings and if not really working, so we want to make changes that
hopefully would benefit this thing. So yeah, I mean that's the thought.
And we're not really in a position to argue that that won't work because what
we were doing wasn't working all that well. So in that possibly antiquated way
of determining how successful or how good a show is, you know, we
do have a scoreboard that does not indicate where playing great football. Yeah,
so yeah, we're willing to make the changes necessary to try to increase that
score. And we can be willing soldiers and make those changes, and the
other thing can be true that we see things quite differently. Yeah, and
that's fair and there's nothing wrong with that. But in fairness to them,
doing things our way hasn't yielded the results that we all hope to date,
so you know, we'll try whatever. And that suggestion was to eliminate the
mixes and cool they're gone. Here's one from Brian on the Facebook group.
Will Jake and Dan join the Freak? If not, can we at least
get them to rotate onto the different shows. Let me answer the second question
we have had believe the Speakeasy had Dan up for an hour or two.
Dan McDowell, formerly of The Ticket, now on the Hangzone podcast and Jake
was up here or at least an hour yesterday on the Bent and Skin Show,
So aren't that dude? Was he he was? Did he bleed in?
I think two hours with them? Twelve? Yeah, they started at
noon. He did two hours with them and then did at least the first
segment with the Speaks. Okay, I don't think that that is something that
will happen with much frequency, but it's nice. They're old friends of ours
and we talk to them all the time, and we love them and are
super excited about what they've got going on and real proud of of all the
moves that they've made. And there's no reason why they can't be guests if
they if they agree and we have a reason to have them up, or
if we don't have a reason to have them up. It's it's nice to
have those friendships intact and to have the flexibility to do that. As far
as them joining the Freak, I don't really in this business. I will
never say anything with one hundred percent certainty, but I can say with almost
one hundred percent certainty the answer to that question, will Jake and Dan join
the Freak? The answer is probably know, And that's a real hard,
probably almost definitely. Yeah. The answer to that isn't no. The answer
is no, they will not be joining the Freak. We get some form
of this question a lot. You still talk to any of the ticket guys
or do they all refuse to acknowledge you off the air the same as they
do on the air? And then what do y'all? Who do you want
to know? Who y'all still talk to the old place. They don't say
a word about y'all and barely even planning old drops from what I Yeah,
Yeah, we're Yeah, we talk hot. I mean, we work a
f and morning show here, so we don't go out as much. And
you know, I mean you kind of mingle with the people that you work
with and whatever. But we text all the time. I text Donovan yesterday,
actually butt dial Donovan yesterday. He's like, use butt dial me,
Mike. Yeah, sorry, I love you. Seeah, we chat,
we talk. We're cool. I am at least text texted with Corby for
about a half an hour last night. Yeah, yeah, talking about Showgun.
How much we love effing Showgun. Yeah yeah, just catching up And
I haven't even asked, but something came up and I don't think I could
be wrong. I don't think there is a big mandate. I don't know.
Maybe there is a mandate not to say our names or mention us or
play audio. But I don't think it's as much as as speculated. I
just think that's just how it works. And I've listened in the afternoons.
I've tuned in from time to time, and I've heard them, oh,
this is back Danny did this, or this is back when Danny did this
thing. I've heard, and that's been a while, but I've heard it
mentioned Davy just uh, him and Marissa they just had a new baby.
Yeah, and texted those guys and texted Davy personally. He's like, dude,
congratulations, if you need anything, let me know. I'm in the
same boat, old man, and we got little kids and it's awesome and
yeah, dude, we went to dinner with David murrisa just a couple of
months ago. Jake brought up yesterday. It is odd that, though,
because of the legal portion of it, Jake and Dan don't get mentioned.
I don't know if maybe there's a different mandate for them because their whole legal
battle was it was a little more, yeah, far more. You know
serious our departures, so one thing too. But it's a shame and those
guys Jake and Dan, I mean maybe not you, but Dan specifically was
there for a long large portion of the Ticket's history. Yeah, Dan,
I was there when Dan started, right, So to eliminate him from ticket
jargon or the history is feels pretty disingenuous. But I'll say this anything that
if there's any perceived negativity between any of those camps, it has nothing to
do with the people that are our friends that are on the air. Right.
There may have been some hard feelings at first, but those things have
subsided, and it was just it was probably just more disappointment that they weren't
able to work some stuff out and keep us there. Yeah, but our
issues were never with My issues were never with Kirby or No or George or
Gordon. I've texted Gordon. We were chatting last week about typewriters. Yes,
we've been friends for I've been friends with Corby for almost thirty years.
Just because we changed jobs doesn't mean we can't or don't still connect. It's
not as much because we don't work together, right or what would be the
point, Like, who do you tech don't you know, text with someone
every week, no matter how close you are, really unless you work together,
well, especially if you're a dude. Yeah, exactly, Dudes,
you just don't do that. But our issues were never with the guys that
we were in the yeah, in the trenches with on a day to day
basis. And Jake said that yesterday too, He's like, I don't have
any animosity to anybody over there whose name you've heard of pretty much. Yeah,
I thought that was very well said one. And you know what,
Concur, Yeah, exactly, Concur, there are some bad actors. None
of those guys that are on the air, I would consider any of them
bad actors. So and so we missed the guest appearance on each other's shows.
The different personalities and different dynamics makes it really fun to listen to.
Yeah, we have nothing against that here still, and we're allowed to do
that. But I think we were pushed kind of toward provide news and information
because it's too much of our personalities. I think, so us mixing and
circle jaying. Not to say it's frowned upon and you can't do this many
hours or radio and not do that, you know, But I think generally
speaking from management as a strategy was to provide news and information and evolve those
topics in a fun and interesting way. Is what is going to cast the
net out wider than us circle jaying about each other, which I can't really
in theory disagree with you. You can't because the way that this station is
promoted is we promote ourselves, and it's if somebody's just tuning in or they're
you know, flying down the dial and they land on ninety seven to one,
what is going to draw that random person in the most hearing me and
Mikey talk about some trip that we went to Colorado fifteen years ago and a
story that happened that was really funny. Because they're listening, going, Okay,
I don't know who these guys are. I don't know what is relevant
about this story to me. I just tuned in. I'm lost in the
middle of this. Yeah, they want to. They want that person to
tune in and hear a funny story about an airplane that had to get rerouted
because the toilets backed up and there's diarrhea all over the floor. Right,
that's funny, that's interesting, Okay. And then and then quickly move to
another story and then quickly to another story. Unless you write a Jimmy Buffett
theme song about the diary of airplane, then you can yes, play that.
Yeah, but it's true. They want stuff that you're gonna hear and
then go to the water cooler and chat about Hey, where you hear all?
I heard about that on ninety seven on the Freak. That's the playbook
theory on how to improve things, And again, cannot argue with that.
But we come from a school where it's deeper form of entertainment where the listener
tends to know and get to know the people and like those stories and sort
of the behind the scenes, behind the curtain interactions and all that. I
mean, Hell, this segment right here is probably not in the playbook as
far as what's good. But I guarantee a lot of people listening to this
is like this is juicy. Yeah no, And then that's the difference.
But it's easy to do those stories about each other and circle Jane when it's
you're getting nine and eleven and not twos. It's not twos. Yeah that
I get it. But I have seen a little bit of a shift in
the philosophy around here. Lately from the people that make decisions, and it's
kind of more akin to the old school way that we grew up doing radio,
which is you have a fairly small group of people that listen, and
the idea is you want to get that group of people to listen as long
as possible, because that equates to good ratings just as much as having a
bunch of people listening that only use you as a tool for information or a
quick laugh. But they're jumping around listening. I need some news. Oh
okay, I know that seven thirties of scuttle, but they'll hit some local
news. Okay, I get a couple of stories. Time to go back
to my country music or podcast or whatever, you know. I like the
if it's my preference. I want to treat the people that are listening to
us like they're in the room with us, like we're all having a discussion
and it's story time and it's a longer form radio, And I get I
can see both sides of it, but I think the quicker path to success
in their minds was to cast the wide net, get as many people as
you can listening for shorter amounts of time, maybe turn them into p ones
and then you can grow that in a different way. But yeah, we
really don't know. It changes all the time, so we know. And
someone's asking, are you adding an evening show? We're I don't, no,
no, We're we got buckets and we're getting water out of the boat.
We're not adding a brand new engine. And there's holes in some of
those buckets. I wish our buckets levels in them. We wish, but
who knows. Maybe things will turn around for us and it'll I don't even
know. They good know what we all want. Seriously, though, good
questions, thanks for participating on Facebook and on the on the tech stapp.
I wanted questions that were going to be have me and Mikey looking at each
other going how do we do this? I wanted to squirm. I wanted
to give you guys something honest, something you know, transparent, and be
as honest as we could without hurting anybody's feelings, without threatening our livelihood,
threatening our employment status. And also there could still be legal ramifications on certain
topics, so we tried to filter those out. But most of most of
these questions were just exactly what we were looking for, and thank you,
and maybe we can do it again as honess in ten minutes. We don't
walk out of the studio and there's arms crossed and toes being tapped and clipboards,
clip clon boards. Here a box with a plant. It is handed
to me. We have some talk backs. JJ, yeah, I know
you got a bunch of them. We got time for a few. Think
I love it. Hey, Dingu, when you were talking about fish in
Vegas, you really think they're gonna do do at the sphere? I mean
Stroy's probably never seen them do that on stage to be caught the show to
see, So hopefully they do it on Friday or Saturday. Oh maybe a
minor slip of the tongue out of you. You do do something? And
I said the words do back to back, and that guy thought it was
funny because it sounds like do do you. One of the first texts we
got was asking if any of admit it. Did either of you guys also
do do it? The Masters? Uh? No, I did not.
Did you do do it? The Masters? You know what? I don't
know I should have. I was my head was on such a swivel.
I t teet at the Masters, But I did do do it? The
Vatican do you need to make the poo poo. So I wanted you do
do it at the Vatican. Do do it at the Vatican. You know
that's worse, right, I didn't ye, that is sacred holy land.
Well, I didn't sneak off behind a bush. I mean there was a
giant entryway. You were on Vatican grounds and there's a large public facilities.
I didn't sneak into the papal private quarters smearing it all over the system chapel.
No. I did want to go to war with Corby, so I
had to do do somewhere more prestigious. Hey, Mikey and Danny, it's
Larry the dog trainer. Hey, guys, I just wanted you to know
I've been a listener of the other station for about twenty five years. Mikey,
when you and I worked at Serenity at Granada together, I remember complimenting
you on your tickers. Anyway, I started checking out you guys on commercials
and on the redundant sports segments they kept having. And now I don't turn
off the freak. You guys have turned me for life. That's cool,
man, thank you. And that's the idea. That's all been the idea
look, we've said it on air. The pie chart over there is about
seventy percent sports and thirty percent fun times, and no one ever remembers,
for life or quotes of their friends anything from that seventy percent sports. So
the idea was, let's flip it and make it seventy percent fun times and
thirty percent sports. And that's still the plan. The legendary topics and segments
that are part of ticket lore are never about dude when they talk MAVs that
one all go, oh my god. It's random wheels off stuff. It's
conversations that get derailed and go into a ditch and organically just take a life
of their own. It's a bit that Gordon does or a song maybe that
I did or or Korby did. Those are the things that that that lasts
that people remember your station for. It's not about the reason Ranger discussion you
had, but the reason it works is because that's seventy percent sports. It
is a lot easier. Sports are a fountain that feeds you stuff every day
you can talk about. So that's what allows that thirty percent to be so
good. And there's an argument maybe we're not good enough to pull off the
seventy percent required of fun times and unique conversations and wacky songs or whatever.
So yeah, I guess you could argue that, but the format and the
idea should work. Yeah, this is Jack with Jack Pocket. We've been
trying to reach you, Danny. You actually there was a mistake in that
email. You were supposed to win seven million dollars. We've been trying to
reach you, but you gave us the wrong phone number and he didn't respond
to our email. So we're gonna need you to respond to that email and
you can get that seven million dollars thanks to Jack. Let's no dude,
the other guy who runs it. That was Jack. That's Jack, mister
Pocket. Jack Pocket, respond to that email. I will trust me.
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